Sensitive Quotes
861 quotes by 739 authors
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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world's…
— Pema Chodron
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May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.
— Sappho
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A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger…
— Nelson Mandela
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I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.
— Candy Darling
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Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant…
— Richard J. Foster
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I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is…
— Brother Roger
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Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater…
— Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive…
— Rusty Schweickart
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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of…
— Robert E. Sherwood
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I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and…
— Andrew Wyeth
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to…
— Anthony de Mello
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I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.
— Don Johnson
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The pineal gland of evolutionarily older animals, such as lizards and amphibians, is also called the 'third' eye. Just like the two seeing eyes, the…
— Rick Strassman
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The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for…
— Timothy Leary
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We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been…
— John S. Pistole
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Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize…
— Rob Brezsny
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Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
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